Renato Monteiro
Visiting Policy Fellow
Renato Monteiro
Visiting Policy Fellow
Renato Monteiro is X’s former Global Data Protection Officer and the Global Head of Privacy. At X, he oversaw the Global Privacy and Data Protection Program, alongside X’s AI Governance structure. He led diverse privacy teams, including privacy legal, policy, program management, operations, compliance, risk, and engineering, while constantly collaborating with cross-functional and multi-disciplinary teams.
Renato holds a Ph.D. from the University of São Paulo (USP). His research focused on the “Right to Explanation on Automated Decision Making”. He also holds an LL.M in Technology Law from New York University (NYU) and the National University of Singapore (NUS), and a Masters in Constitutional Law and Fundamental Rights from Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC).
Since 2022, he has provided several testimonies to the Brazilian Federal Senate regarding the Brazilian Bill on AI. His contributions mainly focused on transparency obligations and the right to explanation. Renato also actively collaborated with the discussions and drafting of the General Data Protection Law of Brazil – LGPD. He has also contributed to the discussions and drafting of privacy, data protection, and AI regulation in different regions of the world, such as the EU, Asia, LatAm, and the US.
Renato co-founded Data Privacy Brasil, Brazil’s leading privacy and data protection research center. Renato was recognized as one of the Thought Leaders in Privacy globally in 2019 and selected for the Global Data Review’s 40 under 40 in April 2021.
Before that, Renato was a visiting student at the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg, and an intern at the United Nations, in New York, and the Organization of the American States, in Washington, D.C.
At the Oxford Internet Institute, Renato aims to foster collaboration between industry, academia, government, and civil society about accountability, transparency obligations, and the right to explanation in AI systems.
Privacy, Data Protection, AI, Transparency, Explainability, Fundamental Rights, Accountability, Governance